Watching Higher Education/Observando a Educação Superior

Save Scholarly Ideas, Not the Publishing Industry (a rant)

December 12, 2011

Via Scoop.it – More … or less! How did academia become so risk-adverse? The whole point of tenure was to protect radical thinking. But where is the radicalism in academia? I get that there are more important things to protest in the world than scholarly publishing, but why the hell aren’t academics working together to resist the corporatization and manipulation of the knowledge that they produce? Why aren’t they collectively teaming up to challenge the status quo? Journal articles aren’t nothing… they’re the very product of our knowledge production process. (via @josemota)Via socialmediacollective.org